Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-04
ALL MOST A RIOT.
A Mob OF Ten Thon sand People
ON the street.

ON the Street.
One of the most dilgraceful affairs
which has ever occurred y this city took
place shortly before eight o'clock last
night. The trouble commenced over the
lawless conduct of crowd of half drunk.
en- loafers who congregated at the cor.
ner of Arcadia and Main streets and
ieopardized the lives of passing people
by throwing bombs and large fre.crack.
ers under the feet of Horses. These
wilfully malicious individuals seemed to
take delight in throwing the bombs into
the middle of the street jtst as carriage
came by. and on one occasion, just
about 1880 o'clock, a bomb was
thrown under horse which was attached
to carriage containing ! lady and
little girl. This bomb exploded and the
horse shied, nearly over.
turning the carriage, and throwing
out the lady and child. These proceed
ings 80 alarmed some citizen that tele.
phone message was sent to the Police
Station and Officer Dalton was des-
patched on horseback with orders to stop
the disorderly proceedings. Officer Dial.
ton was mounted and when he arrived
on the scene the crowd. which was quite
large, hooted him, and the men amused
themselves by showering upon him and
his horse the largest kind of tirecrackers.
This frightened the animal, and Dalton
was forced to dismount. He then
walked toward the crowd, which had
grown into mob, and he was met by
howls and various other cries, such as
only . half drunken assemblage can
emit. The men were not content with
bowling at him, but threw firecrackers
at him and at others passing by, and so
noisy and disorderly did the mob be-
come that Officer Dalton determined
upon arresting some of the disturbers of
the peace, and catching sight
of Charles Longwell who was
in the act of lighting a
frecracker, placed him under arrest.
No sooner had he placed his hand on
Longwell than the mob assaulted him,
and for short time he was handled
pretty roughly. Chas. E. Atwood
came to his assistance, as should every
good citizen, and between them they
managed to hold the crowd in some con-
troll. Officer Botello then arrived and
arrested Il. Meyers, and then the crowd
became furious and yelled and hooted.
A bystander, who became alarmed, ran
to the police station and reported that
riot was taking place, an0 it was fortu-
nate that it was Just about the change
of watch, when additional officers were
easily found. These started for the
scene and Officer Fowler, who was
mounted, dashed off and reached the
front of the mob, which had become
very threatening just at the height
of the ill.feeling. He arrest.
ed q disturber Of the peace
aud was leading him off when Phiiip
Fritz hit the officer on the side of the
head. Fowler let 60 Of the man whom
be had arrested and seized Fritz. The
crowd then surrounded him and used
him roughly for few moments. Mr..
Atwood sprang to his assistance and
shortly after Officers Collins, Auble,
Hughes, Methvin, Little, Mackel,
Fletcher, Stephenson, Dillon and ohers
arrived on the scene and succeeded in
holding the mob at bay. All then
started for the police station, the mob
following and increasing in numbers un.
til, when it reached Spring street, 1t
numbered several thousand. At the
corner of Spring and Temple streets,
Fritz, who had struck Officer Fowler
and who was subject to fits, fell in fit
and had to be carried the rest of the
way. This started the cry that he had
been killed, and cries of she's
killed, shoot the officers" arose and
for time it appeared as if there was
danger OF serious riot. The officers
proceeded, however, reinforced by 9th.
ers, and followed by an ever increasing
mob they marched TO the police station.
As they passed up Second street it
seemed as If the whole city had turned
out en- masse and in few minutes Sec.
ond street from Fort to Main and Spring
streets, nearly as far as First, was
densely packed with men. During the
march to the police station the air was
filled with the shouts of the half drunken
mobbers and the officers arrested men
right and left until matters became quiet
er. Besides the men arrested by Dalton,
Botello and Fowler; Officer Collins ar.
rested A. Arkmer, G. +. jenkins and A.
American; Officer Auble arrested John
Wicks and James Brown; Officer
Hughes arrested 4. X. East; Officer Lit
| tie arrested j. w. Williams; officer
Mackel arrested Jno Smith; Officer
| Fletcher arrested Bill Shaw, and Officer
Stephenson arrested D. Childs. These
were charged with disorderly conduct
and with being drunk and disorderly.
Fritz was charged with assaulting an
officer and recovered from his fit about
O'Clock. The mob reached the police
station a. 8 o'clock. aud it.was not nutil
: nearly 10 that u was entirely dispsrsed.